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of Vera Paz. Quite recently Mr. Richardson sent us a skin which he secured on the 

 Volcano of Mombacho, in Western Nicaragua, and it has been recorded both from 

 Costa Rica and the State of Panama. It also occurs in trade collections from Bogota 

 with the allied form C. spilonota ; but these birds are not likely to be found together, 

 but in different valleys, C. nigrolineata probably occurring in the Magdalena Valley. 



Of the habits of this Owl nothing has been recorded. According to Sumichrast the 

 iris in life is black. 



B. Ptilosis hrunnea et cervina, aut brunnea cervino variegata. 

 2. Ciccaba perspicillata. 



Spectacle Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 50^ t. 107'. 



Strix perspicillata, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 58 ^. 



Syrnium perspicillatum, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 222 ' ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 370 ' ; 1867, p. 280 " ; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 289°; ix. p. 132"; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 366'; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 277 ° ; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238 '°. 

 Chouette a masque noir, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 172, t. 44-^'. 

 Strix torquata, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 193 '°. 



Ciccaba torquata, Scl. P Z. S. 1857, p. 227 " ; v. Frantz; J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 366 '*. 

 Pulsatrix torquata, Sa\v. v. Z.S. 1870, p. 216"; Lawr. Bull. U. S. N^t. Mus. no. 4, p. 38"; 



Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 403 " ; vi. p. 388 " ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa 



Rica, 1887, p. 125 ". 



Supra brunnea, alis et dorso indistincte fasco fasciatis ; eauda fasciis sex notata ; superciliis, loris elongatis, gala 

 et abdomine toto cervinis (hoc interdum brunneo transfasciato) ; alia subtus cervinis, remigibus saturate 

 brunneis. Long, tota circa] 8-0, alse 13-8, caudaB7".5. (Descr. feminae ex Calovevora, Panama. Mas. nostr.) 



Juv. Plerumque cervina, facie tota nigerrima. 



Hab. Mexico, Atoyac {Mrs. H. R. Smith), Santecomapam {Boucard ^^), Omealca, 

 Uvero 1°, Tehuan tepee, Santa Efigenia ^o ^^ [Sumichrast) ; Bkitish Hondueas, Cayo 

 in the western district {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Choctum, Escuintla ^ [0. S. 8f 

 F. B. G.) ; Salvador, La Libertad ( W. B. Bichardson) ; Nicaragua, Sucuya 

 {Nutting ^^), Blewfields (IFicMam ^), Chinandega, Momotombo, SanEmilio {W. B. 

 Bichardson) ; Costa Rica ^, Nicoya {Arce), Bebedero (C. F. Underwood, in mus. 

 Bothschild), Las Anonas {v. Frantzius ^*, Zeledon '^), La Palma {Nutting i^), 

 Angostura (Zeledon ^^); Panama, Chitral^ Castillo ^^ Bugaba ^^^ Calohre {Arce), 

 Lion Hill {M'Leannan^^). — South America generally, from Colombia and Guiana 

 to Brazil ^. 



The Spectacle Owl, as Latham calls this species ^, is one of the commonest and best- 

 known of the Owls of South America, where it enjoys a wide range. It is also 

 distributed over the whole of Central America, South-eastern Mexico as far as the 

 middle of the State of Vera Cruz, and probably beyond to the limits of the forests of 

 that region. 



In Guatemala we met with it on both sides of the mountain-range, but only in the 



